Wind Power in the News

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Wind Power News Tuesday November 21st 2006

Utah gets more wind power
(Provo Daily Herald: Tue, 21 Nov) deck: 100.5-megawatt Oregon wind farm to serve Rocky Mountain Power customers in six states Grace Leong Rocky Mountain Power residential and business customers in Utah and five other states will soon be receiving electricity from its new wind generation plant in Oregon.

Mayor signs climate protection deal, wants city to use wind turbines for power
(Gloucester Daily Times: Mon, 20 Nov) Mayor John Bell, pushing a major private wind-power proposal, has committed his island city to a climate protection agreement aimed at reducing global warming.

PNOC-EDC to put up unit for hydro, wind power projects
(INQ7 Business: Sun, 19 Nov) IN PREPARATION for the eventual privatization of the Philippine National Oil Co. Energy Development Corp. (PNOC-EDC), its parent firm is planning to form a separate subsidiary that will be in charge of hydropower and wind power projects.

Still no power for thousands in northern B.C.
(CBC via Yahoo! Canada News: Tue, 21 Nov) With nighttime temperatures dipping well below freezing, several thousand B.C. Hydro customers in northern British Columbia are still without power on Tuesday following a weekend wind storm.

East Toledo in running for wind power lab
(The Toledo Blade: Mon, 20 Nov) America's first laboratory for testing offshore wind turbine blades would be built in East Toledo and begin operating along the Maumee River shoreline by mid-2009 if a contingent of northern Ohio academic, business, and government officials gets its way. The Ohio site is one of six nationally in the running for the $11.5 million U.S.

Â£10m wind farm 'still on course'
(Yorkshire Post Today: Tue, 21 Nov) Power firm insists project will go ahead despite mast setback Robert Sutcliffe THE managing director of a company which wants to create a wind farm on Todmorden Moor has insisted the controversial Â£10m plans have not been blown off course "" despite losing a planning appeal involving a temporary mast 60m (196ft) high. (21/11/2006 09:28:06)

College adds courses as need for wind power techs grows
(KATU Portland: Mon, 20 Nov) The Columbia Gorge Community College is planning to train technicians for the wind energy industry that is growing rapidly in the region. Resistance to vertigo is required since graduates may spend time atop 250-foot tall turbine towers.

UL Certification in Hand, Southwest Windpower Ships Its Newest Residential-Scale Wind Generator, the Skystream 3.7, to
(PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance: Tue, 21 Nov) Today Southwest Windpower announced it has received Underwriters Laboratories certification for a key component of its 1.8kW-rated Skystream 3.7 residential-scale wind generator. UL certified the Skystream's inverter, a device that converts wind energy into household power.

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